Kawawachikamach, Quebec

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Kawawachikamach, Quebec, meaning "lit near a winding lake", is an aboriginal village at the south end of Lac Matemace (where it joins Lac Peter) approximately 15 kilometres northeast of Schefferville, population 581, latitude 54° 51' 49", longitude 66° 45' 34". The village was built by the Naskapi from 1980 to 1983.

Access to the village is by way of railway from Sept-Iles, Quebec, across Labrador to Schefferville, then by way of an 15 km road from the center of Schefferville. With the demise of Schefferville as a residential center for the iron ore mining operations, Kawawachikamach (the only Naskapi community) and Matimékush (the northernmost Quebec Innu community) are now the prime communities in the region.

Telephone and postal services are still provided from the Schefferville exchange by Telebec and from the Schefferville Post Office, G0G 2Z0, while electricity is provided by the Schefferville Power Company. The Naskapi provide their own policing services.

Naskapi Imuun provides broadband satellite Internet services to the Kawawachikamach/Schefferville region.